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STUPENDOUS    ISSUES 

THE  CASE  STATED  AND  EVIDENCE  PRESENTED 

BY 

THE   PUBLICITY   BUREAU 


FOR    THE 


EXPOSURE  OF  POLITICAL  ROMANISM 


Part  I. 

National    Headquarters 

of    the 
PUBLICITY    BUREAU 

for   the 

EXPOSURE  OF  POLITICAL  ROMANISM 
Masonic  Hall,  New  York  City 


To  the  People  of  the  United  States: 

We  ask  your  co-operation  in  preserving 
free  institutions  in  Mexico  and  in  our 
own  beloved  land.  In  brief  the  facts  are 
as  follows: 

1.  In  Mexico  the  Revolution  of  1910,  led 
by  Francisco  I.  Madero  was  against  des- 
potism. Part  of  this  despotism  was 
caused  by  some  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
clergy.  In  proportion  as  the  uprising  by 
the  Mexican  people  succeeded  they  ex- 
pelled such  of  the  priests  as  opposed  them. 

Here  in  the  United  States  the  leading 
members  of  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy 
sided  with  the  expelled  priests.  AND  THIS 
SUPPORT  OF  THE  EXPELLED  CLERGY  BY  THE 
ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CLERGY  IN  THIS  COUNTRY, 
COMBINED  WITH  TWO  OTHER  EVENTS,  HAS 

RESULTED  IN  A   HEAD-ON  COLLISION  IN  OUR 

POLITICS.  In  other  words,  our  National 
Government,  consisting  of  a  Democratic 
President  and  a  Democratic  Congress,  has 
recognized  the  Mexican  Revolutionist  Gov- 
ernment which,  among  various  reforms, 
had  expelled  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy, 
and  here  in  our  own  country  the  opposition 
political  party,  the  Republican  Organiza- 
tion, IS  SUPPORTING  THE  CONTENTION  OF 

THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CLERGY,  This  is  corn- 


October  16,  1916. 

pelling  thbse  of  us  who  believe  in  the 
justice  of  the  People's  cause  in  Mexico, 
and  believe  that  the  existing  Democratic 
National  Government  here  should  be  re- 
elected,  to  state  our  case  to  you,  the 
voters,  OR  BE  DEFEATED.  In  self-defense 
we  are  obliged  to  address  you.  We  have 
no  alternative  except  to  permit  the  de- 
feat of  President  Wilson  and  many  of  his 
colleagues  by  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy 
and  Big  Business.  In  the  accompany  Part 
II.  we  present  evidence  which  proves  con- 
clusively : 

(1)  THAT  THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CAR- 
DINALS IN  OUR  MIDST  ARE  AGAINST  WILSON'S 
POLICY       IN       MEXICO,       AND,       THEREFORE, 

AGAINST  HIS  RE-ELECTION; 

(2)  THAT  THE  REPUBLICAN  ORGANIZA- 
TION IS  STANDING  IN  WITH  THEM  AND  WITH 

THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CLERGY  WHO  FOR- 
MERLY WERE  IN  MEXICO,  AND  AGAINST  THE 

MEXICAN  PEOPLE;  AND 

(3)  THAT  THE  MEXICAN  PEOPLE  ARE  EN- 
TITLED   TO    GO    FORWARD    UNDER    THE    CAR- 

RANZA  GOVERNMENT.  Conquest  of  Mexico 
by  a  Republican  National  Government  in 
this  country  is  not  the  proper  solution  of 
the  Mexican  problem.  This  we  demon- 
strate conclusively  in  the  evidence  we  pre- 
sent. 


2.  The  Mexican  situation. is  paralled  in 
the  Philippines.     In  the  uprising  of  the 
Philippine  people  in  1898  against  the  op- 
pression of  Spain  and  the  Roman  Catholic 
clergy  they  expelled  this  clergy.    But  here 
in  our  United  States  their  colleagues  in- 
duced President  McKinley  to  stand  for  the 
taking  over  of  tke  people  of  the  Philip- 
pines by  his  Government^wtae/i  promptly 
RESTORED   the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy 
in  the  Philippines.    Fourteen  years  later, 
however,  in  1912,  the  Republican  Govern- 
ment  and   its   ally,   the   Roman    Catholic 
Hierarchy,  under  President  Taft's  leader- 
ship, was   defeated,   AND   THE   INCOMING 

GOVERNMENT  GRANTED  MORE  AND  MORE  OP 
SELF-GOVERNMENT  TO  THE  PEOPLE  OF  THE 
PHILIPPINES,  AND  HAS  PROMISED  THEM  IN- 
DEPENDENCE—  COMPLETE  FREEDOM.  This 

has  been  fought  by  the  Roman  Catholic 
Hierarchy  in  <yur  midst;  and  it  has 
been  fought  by  Big  Business,  and  by 
whatever  else  is  reactionary,  including 
the  Republican  Organization.  We  who 
believe  in  going  forward  and  freeing  the 
Philippine  people  and  re-electing  Wilson 
and  his  colleagues  are  obliged  to  tell  you 
these  facts  or  run  the  risk  of  defeat. 

3.  In  the  War  of  Nations  both  sides  in 
that  awful  conflict  have  for  nearly  a  year 
been  agreed  that  the  outcome  should  be  a 
system    that    shall    result    in    permanent 
peace.     And  to  aid  in  the  attainment  of 
that   stupendous   ideal   President   Wilson 
and  his  colleagues  have  declared  for  the 
joining  of  the  United  States  with  the  other 
great  Governments  of  earth  at  the  close 
of  this  war  in  the  formation  of  a  WORLD 

LEAGUE  TO  PREVENT  AGGRESSION;  and  Con- 

gress  in  its  Naval  Appropriation  act  has 
instructed  the  President  that  not  later 
than  the  close  of  the  war  HE  SHALL  INVITE 

THE  GREAT  GOVERNMENTS  TO  JOIN  IN  A  CON- 
FERENCE, TO  DEVISE  METHODS  FOR  ATTAIN- 
ING THE  DESIRED  END,  TO  INCLUDE  THE 
TERMINATION  OF  COMPETITION  IN  ARMA- 
MENTS; and  our  President  is  authorized  TO 
CEASE  LETTING  CONTRACTS  FOR  BUILDING 
MORE  WAR  SHIPS  AS  SOON  AS  A  PROPER  IN- 
TERNATIONAL AGREEMET  IS  REACHED. 

The  Republican  organization,  however, 
controlled  by  the  Reactionists  in  national 
convention  assembled,  refused  to  pledge 
that  their  nominees  if  elected  will  go  into 
any  such  LEAGUE  TO  ENFORCE  PEACE.  The 


resolution  committee  brought  in  a  declara- 
tion for  a  WORLD  COURT,  a  wholly  in- 
effectual remedy,  as  Mr.  Hughes  himself 
declares  in  his  speech  of  acceptance. 

Here  is  reason  number  three  for  refus- 
ing to  vote  to  restore  to  power  the  Re- 
publican National  Government. 

4.  Still    another     reason    is    that    the 
Special  Interests  which  would  return  to 
power  are  so  greedy  for  Private  Profits 
that  the  nation's  preparedness  against  a 
foreign  foe  would  be  inadequate. 

5.  And  yet  another  reason  is  that  the 
program  for  mutual  self-defense  by  the 
twenty-one  American  Republic  against  a 
foreign  foe  would  be  terminated. 

6.  In  domestic  affairs  in  general  the  ex- 
isting National  Government  has  wrought 
stupendous  reforms  AND  WILL  CONTINUE 

TO  DO   SO  IF  RE-ELECTED.      In   opposition  is 

the  Republican  organization,  and  its  col- 
leagues the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy 
and  Big  Business,  and  other  forms  of  re- 
actions, all  of  which  are  doing  their  ut- 
most to  defeat  Wilson's  re-election.  Their 
slogan  is,  ANYTHING  TO  BEAT  WILSON  ! 

7.  In  this  World  Crisis  you,  fellow  citi- 

zenS,ARE  IN  DUTY  BOUND  TO  RECOGNIZE 
THESE  FACTS  AND  CONCEDE  THAT  THEY  FAR 
OUTWEIGH  WHAT  YOU  CONSIDER  TO  BE  THE 
SHORT-COMINGS  OF  OUR  PRESIDENT.  Even 

here,  however,  bear  in  mind  that  the 
Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy  is  fiercely  op- 
posing him.  HIS  ONLY  ROMAN  CATHOLIC 
SUPPORT  is  FROM  the  INDEPENDENT  AND 
PROGRESSIVE  MEMBERS  OF  THAT  ORDER. 

None  of  us  can  object  to  that.  And  his 
appointment  of  Roman  Catholics  to  public 
office  has  been  to  minor  positions,  most  of 
which  have  been  the  patronage  of  the 
Senators  and  Congressmen,  and  it  is  they 
who  should  be  held  responsible  if  they 
are  putting  into  office  more  than  a  fair 
share  of  Roman  Catholic  appointees.  Yet 
even  here  we  must  be  careful  not  to  elect 
a  Republican  House,  AS  IT  WOULD  BLOCK 
THE  REFORM  MOVEMENT.  In  other  words, 
should  the  Republicans  organize  the  next 
House  then  the  Reactionists  would  control 
it,  including  Big  Business  and  the  Roman 
Hierarchy.  Don't  overlook  this  all-im- 
portant point !  Therefore  take  no  chances. 

RE-ELECT  EACH  OF  THE  DEMOCRATIC  CON- 
GRESSMEN AND  SENATORS  AND  THEY  AS  A 
WHOLE  WILL  GO  FORWARD  WITH  THE  PRO- 
GRESSIVE MOVEMENT. 


Continually  bear  in  mind  that  Hughes 
j  ,j d  most  of  the  other  Republican  nominees 
?ire  being  financed  by  Big  Business  and 
strongly  supported  by  the  Roman  Hier- 
archy; while  the  progressive  and  inde- 
pendent Roman  Catholics  are  bravely  go- 
jTvg  forward  and  will  vote  as  their  con- 
igience  directs.  WILL  YOU  DO  AS  WELL? 
ftead  again  President  Wilson's  raanly 
statement  to  Mr.  O'Leary,  president  of 
tl,B  Roman  Catholic  "Truth  Society"  who 
stwit  to  him  an  insulting  telegram: 

"I  would  feel  deeply  mortified  to  have 
y,»u  or  anybody  like  you  [that  is,  who  acts 
a*  you  do]  vote  for  me.  Since  you  have 
a f cess  to  many  disloyal  Americans  and  I 
h$ve  not,  I  will  ask  you  to  convey  this 
to  them." 


I 

Let  all  liberty-loving  voters  cast  their 
ballots  for  the  re-election  of  our  Presi- 
dent, who  is  being  fought  by  the  Roman 
Hierarchy  and  all  of  their  reactionary 
subjects,  as  well  as  by  Big  Business  and 
the  rest  of  the  Reactionists.  Our  own 
liberties  are  at  stake,  as  well  as  the  liber- 
ties of  the  people  of  Mexico  and  the 
Philippines,  and  the  securing  of  World 
Peace.  Never  before  have  so  many  stu- 
pendous issues  been  before  us. 

Yours  for  Freedom  and  World  Peace, 
PUBLICITY  BUREAU  FOR  THE 
EXPOSURE  OF  POLITICAL  RO- 
MANISM, 

C.  BRADWAY,  Manages, 


Part  II. 
THE    EVIDENCE 

Chapter  I. 

CATHOLIC  PRELATES  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  ARE  FIGHTING  THE 
ADMINISTRATION,  AIDED  BY  THE  REPUBLICAN  ORGANIZATION. 


At  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  November 
15th,  1914,  CARDINAL  O'CONNELL  in  an  ad- 
dress to  the  Federation  of  Roman  Cath- 
olic Societies  said: 

"The  Administration  in  this  country  has 
at  last  done  something  to  insure  the  safety 
of  our  nuns  and  priests  in  Mexico  from 
the  brutal  rapacity  and  barbarism  of  those 
savages  who  for  mere  than  a  year  past 
have  conclusively  proved  their  absolute  un- 
fitness  to  govern.  But  the  good  work  is 
far  from  finished. 

"And  when  the  truth  is  known  then  all 
the  world  will  realize  that  for  the  sake  of 
our  public  honor  as  a  nation  WE  MUST  PUT 

AN  END  TO  THE  MASONIC  CONSPIRACY  which 

has  for  two  years  deluged  Mexico  with 
blood,  drained  the  material  resources  of 
that  country  and  spread  atheism  and  an- 
archy over  a  land  once  happy  and  in- 
dustrious"* 

Later,  in  1915,  when  seven  of  the  Pan- 
American  Governments,  including  our  own 
Government,  were  about  to  recognize  the 
Carranza  Government,  the  following  cable- 
gram was  published  throughout  the  United 
State*: 

"ROME,  October  9, 1915 — POPE  BENEDICT 
received  in  private  audience  yesterday 
the  Most  Rev.  Francisco  Orozoy  Jiminez, 
Archbishop  of  Guadalajara,  Mexico,  to- 

*  For  the  history  of  the  conflict  between 
Liberal  Societies  and  the  Roman  Catholic 
Hierarchy,  consult  Political  Romanism,  by 
Publicity  Bureau  for  the  Exposure  of 
Political  Romanism,  C.  Bradway,  Man- 
ager. 400  pages.  75  cents  in  paper  cov- 
ers, $1.00  in  cloth.  Masonic  Hall,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 


gether  with  Monsignor  Francis  C.  Kelley 
of  Chicago,  President  of  the  Catholic  Ex- 
tension Society  in  the  United  States.  The 
visitors  presented  an  important  plan  in 
connection  with  THE  CHURCH  IN  MEXICO. 

"The  Pope  showed  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  the  situation  as  regards  the  Mexi- 
can clergy,  ANJ  PRAISED  THE  GENEROSITY 

OF  AMERICAN  CATHOLICS  [THE  AMERICAN 
HIERARCHY]  IN  THE  HELP  THEY  ARE  GIVING 
THEIR  CO-RELIGIONISTS  [FELLOW  PRIESTS] 
IN  MEXICO." 

A  few  months  later  the  following  state- 
ment by  CARDINAL  GIBBONS  was  published 
throughout  the  land: 

"They  will  never  cease  fighting  in 
Mexico  under  Carranza.  I  have  no  confi- 
dence in  the  man.  The  situation  is  a 
crime  against  civilization.  We  have  tried 
in  every  way  to  get  help  to  those  suffering 
from  the  warring  factions  in  Mexico,  and 
even  now  have  $220,000  in  hand  to  help 
them,  but  we  cannot  get  it  to  them." 
(N.  Y.  Times,  January  9,  1916). 

On  March  4th,  1916,  the  New  York 
Times  published  excerpts  from  a  Mexican 
pamphlet  in  which  the  Roman  Catholic 
prelates  in  this  country  were  charged  with 
helping  to  finance  a  counter  revolution  in 
Mexico,  to  be  conducted  under  General 
Diaz.  The  day  following  the  publication 
of  these  charges  an  answer  was  made  by 
CARDINAL  FARLEY,  of  New  York  City.  His 
letter  was  published  in  full  in  the  New 
York  Times.  He  said: 

"I  frankly  admit  that  I  am  opposed  to 
this  [Carranza]  Government  which  has 
established  itself  by  appealing  to  the  worst 
elemeHts  in  the  country,  and  securing  its 


power  and  ascendency  in  the  early  stages 
of  its  growth  by  disregarding  every  prin- 
ciple of  justice  and  morality.  AND  i  AM 

CONFIDENT  THAT  THE  DAY  IS  NOT  FAR  DIS- 
TANT WHEN  THE  GREAT  MASS  OF  THE  MEXI- 
CAN PEOPLE  WILL  BE  RELEASED  FROM  THE 
TYRANNICAL  YOKE  IMPOSED  UPON  THEM!" 

The  counter  revolution  in  Mexico  under 
General  Diaz  was  started  as  the  pamphlet 
had  predicted,  but  thus  far  it  has  failed. 
THE  ISSUE  is  NOW  UP  TO  YOU,  MR.  VOTER. 

WHAT  ARE  YOU   GOING  TO  DO? 

Nearly  a  year  ago  several  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  papers  referred  this  Mexican 
question  to  the  voters.  For  example,  in 
New  Orleans  the  official  organ  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  diocese,  The  Morning 
Star,  said: 

"Mr.  Wilson's  recognition  of  Carranza, 
the  avowed  enemy  of  the  Catholic  Church, 


is  an  insult  to  the  Catholics  in  this  coun- 
try. It  is  a  'direct  challenge  to  them,  and 
we  hope  that  not  only  Catholics  but  every 
true  lover  of  freedom  WILL  GIVE  HIM  SUCH 

AN    OPEN    ANSWER    AT    THE    POLLS    as    Will 

prove  to  him  that  no  President  of  the 
United  States  can  so  flagrantly  ignore  the 
lawful  and  respectful  request  of  16,000,000 
fellow  citizens  WITHOUT  PAYING  THE  PEN- 
ALTY." (Current  Opinion,  Jan.  1916,  p.  45.) 

THE  FACTS  ARE  THAT  THE  ROMAN  CATH- 
OLIC PRELATES  IN  OUR  UNITED  STATES  ARE 
OPPOSED  TO  PRESIDENT  WILSON'S  RE-ELEC- 
TION, AND  THEREFORE  ARE  CO-OPERATING 

WITH  THE  REPUBLICAN  ORGANIZATION  AND 
WITH  BIG  BUSINESS  AND  INHERENTLY  THEY 
ARE  OPPOSED  TO  THE  PROGRESSIVE  MOVE- 
MENT. THUS,  THE  ISSUE  IS  SQUABELY 

DRAWN. 


Chapter  II. 
THE    REACTIONARY    REPUBLICAN    CAMPAIGN    IN    INDIANA. 


In  the  New  York  W orld-of  October  16th, 
the  following  telegraphic  letter  by  Louis 
Seibold,  from  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  says: 

"The  Republican  plan  of  campaign  has 
been  predicated  on  the  theory  that  with 
the  assistance  of  the  voters  of  Teutonic 
origin  AND  THOSE  OF  THE  CATHOLIC  FAITH 
AND  SYMPATHIES,  and  with  the  union  of 
the  regular  and  Progressive  factions  of 
their  party,  they  are  sure  of  victory  in 
spite  of  the  heavy  handicaps  imposed  by 
Mr.  Hughes  and  Colonel  Roosevelt. 

"It  is  assumed  by  the  Republican  lead- 
ers, who  are  openly  courting  the  hyphen- 
ate AND  CATHOLIC  VOTERS,  that  the  in- 
fluence to  which  voters  of  those  classes 
ordinarily  respond  will  lead  them  to  re- 
buke the  Democratic  President  for  his  re- 
fusal to  surrender  to  the  dictation  of 
either 

Catholics  and  Mexico. 

"The  only  interest  displayed  by  voters  in 
the  relations  of  the  Administration  with 
Mexico  has  obviously  been  inspired  by  a 
propaganda  inaugurated  by  professional 
Roman  Catholic  agitators.  It  is  the  view 
of  unprejudiced  observers  that  the  leaders 
and  spokesmen  of  the  Catholic  Church  in 
Indiana  are  opposing  the  President  BE- 
CAUSE OF  HIS  REFUSAL  TO  COMPLY  WITH 

THEIR  DEMANDS  that  he  compel  obedience 
by  the  Carranza  regime  to  the  ambitions 
of  the  church  leaders,  even  if  such  in- 
sistence requires  a  resort  to,  force  and  in- 
tervention. 
"This  movement,  WHICH  is  ASSUMING 

WIDESPREAD  PROPORTIONS  THROUGHOUT  THE 

COUNTRY,  particularly  in  the  West,  is  be- 
ing extensively  exploited  by  the  Republi- 
can managers  in  Indiana. 

"An  observer  is  informed  that  'the 
church  is  opposed  to  Mr.  Wilson';  that 
'every  priest  in  the  country  is  secretly 
counselling  his  parishioners  to  vote  for 
Mr.  Hughes/  and  'that  Cardinals  Gib- 


bons, Farley  and  O'Connell  are  fully 
aware  of  the  undertaking  and  are  in  sym- 
pathy with  it.'  .... 

" No  word  has  come  from 

any  of  the  dignitaries  of  the  church  to  in- 
stance their  disapproval  of  the  uses  to 
which  the  professional  agitators,  who  as- 
sume to  speak  for  it,  are  making  of  Us 
influences. 

"Indiana  is  being  flooded  with  literature 
intended  to  influence  the  minds  of  Catholic 
voters.  A  thick  volume  distributed  by 
'The  Catholic  Church  Extension  Society 
of  the  United  States  of  America'  contains 
some  outrageous  attacks  on  the  President, 
questioning  both  his  personal  and  official 
motives  in  dealing  with  the  Mexican 
problem. 

"It  is  entitled  'The  Book  of  Red- and 
Yellow,'  and  the  authorship  of  it  is  cred- 
ited to  Francis  Clement  Kelley.  It  is  pub- 
lished in  Chicago  and  several  Catholic 
clergymen  are  given  as  sponsors  for  it. 
The  brochure  has  this  sub-title:  'Being  a 
Story  of  Blood  and  a  Yellow  Streak.' 

"There  is  little  question  that  this  pub- 
lication and  others  of  a  similar  nature  and 
purpose  HAVE  EXERCISED  CONSIDERABLE  IN- 
FLUENCE OVER  THE  MINDS  OF  A  GREAT  MANY 
VOTERS. 

"Henry  Lane  Wilson,  former  Ambassa- 
dor to  Mexico,  is  the  chief  promoter  of 
the  Catholic  .propaganda  against  Presi- 
dent Wilson.  He  has  established  himself 
here  to  direct  it.  Under  his  instruction 
literature,  moving*  pictures  and  cart-tail 
oratory  are  being  provided  by  the  Repub- 
lican campaign  managers. 

"The  ex-Ambassador  is  confident  that 
the  majority  of  the  Catholic  clergy  are  an- 
tagonistic to  the  President.  He  told  one 
of  his  callers  to-day  that  TWENTY-THREE 

OUT  OF  THE  THIRTY  CATHOLIC  CLERGYMEN 
OF  INDIANAPOLIS  WERE  USING  THEIR  IN- 
FLUENCE AGAINST  THE  PRESIDENT  AND  IN 
THE  INTEREST  OF  MR.  HUGHES." 


Chapter  III. 

THE  LAW  AND  THE  FACTS  CONCERNING  MEXICO 

Under    International    law    our    United 


-- — *    -      .j-Jiabiuimi    law    our    united 
states  Government  is  in  honor  bound  to 
respect  the  sovereignty  of  the  Republic  of 
Mexico—refrain  from  attacking  her  inde- 
pendence. 

Also  our  Government  is  in  honor  bound 
to  insist  that  such  of  our  citizens  as  are 
in  Mexico  shall  not  be  abused  nor  their 
property  rights  be  unjustly  treated.  And 
inasmuch  as  the  civil  war  in  Mexico  re- 
ilted  in  danger  to  the  lives  of  our  citizens 
who  were  among  them,  principally  because 
the  Mexicans  distrusted  the  ffood  faith  of 
our  United  States  Government  and  of  our 
people  who  were  among  them,  our  Gov- 
ernment ordered  them  to  leave  and  come 
home.  Whatever  personal  rights  and 
property  rights  have  been  infringed  by 
the  Mexicans  or  are  being  infringed  by 
them,  should  be  reported  to  our  Depart- 
ment of  State,  AND  THE  MEXICAN  STATE- 
WHENEVER  A  STABLE  GOVERNMENT  SHALL 

STILLY  ESTABLISHED,  WILL  BE  OBLIGED  TO 


and  maintaining  peace  in  Mexico  We 
promise  to  our  citizens  on  or  near  our 
border,  and  to  those  in  Mexico,  wherever 
they  may  be  found,  adequate  and  absolute 
in  their  lives,  liberty  and 


Our  troops  were  ordered  into  Mexico 
from  the  north  for  our  own  self -protection 
Two  or  more  of  these  punitive  expeditions 
crossed  into  Mexico  because  there  were  no 
military  forces  there  that  could  protect 
our  border.  The  question  of  just  what 
arrangement  had  best  be  made  for  our 
continued  protection  along  the  border,  and 
for  the  withdrawal  of  the  punitive  expe- 
-n  still  m  Mexico,  is  being  peaceably 
settled  between  the  two  Governments  by  a 
joint  commission. 

This  peaceful  settlement  is  the  outcome 
the  application  of  the  doctrine  of 
brotherlmess  between  nations.  It  is  the 
progressive  attitude,  as  compared  with  the 
reactionary  attitude,  this  latter  position 
being  founded  on  short-sighted  selfishness 
which  expresses  itself  as  conquest— the 
lobbing  of  a  who  e  nation  and  in  so  doing 
llmg  such  of  its  citizens  as  have  the 
patriotism  to  fight  for  their  God-given 
rights,  and  killing  many  of  our  own  sol- 
diers, necessarily. 

In  the  light  of  these  principles  and  the 
splendid  attitude  of  the  Wilson  Govern- 
ment, lee  the  people  of  this  country  weigh 
the  following  declaration  by  the  Republi- 
can National  Convention  of' 1916  as  to  the 
policy  its  nominees  will  pursue  in  Mexico 
if  elected  to  office  next  November: 

THE     REPUBLICAN     PROGRAM     TOWARD 

MEXICO. 
"Wejjledge^our  aid  in  restoring  order 

*  Congressional  Record,  ^  11680 
Again,  July  11  1916,  Mr.  Cannon  in  the 
Congressional  Record  says :  "We  can  take 
possession  of  Mexico  and  restore  law  and 
order  and  protect  the  lives  and  property 
f  our  citizens,  and  when  a  stable  govern- 
ment is  organized  the  United  States  can 


"Absolute  protection"  to  the  life  and 
property  of  our  citizens  in  Mexico  is  prom- 
ised, which  means  that  the  United  States 
Government  by  force  of  arms  wouU  step 

vower  vF  aU*  b-C°^e  the  ^ereign 
power,  ihe  going  m  is  not  to  be  con- 
tingent upon  our  being  invited  in.  This 
is  emphatically  stated  in  the  opening  sen- 
tence, "We  pledge  our  aid  in  restoring 
maintaining  peace  in  Mexico" 

*SHf£  ENTRY  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 

—  the  words  of  former  Speaker 
Joseph  Cannon  on  the  floor  of  the  House 
June  28,  1916:  "If  I  had  supreme  power 
I  would  go  into  Mexico."* 

Another  way  of  expressing  this  policy 
s  to  say  that  conquest  is  proposed.  Con^ 
quest  is  the  act  of  conquering."  And  to 
conquer  is  to  overcome  by  force.  Thus 
force  as  distinguished  from  consent  is  the 
essence  of  conquest,  and  it  is  planned  for 
oy  tfie  Republican  organization  for  the 
solution  of  the  Mexican  situation.  The 
Liberty-loving  Mexicans  are  to  be  ^th^t  n*nrl 
killed.  And  this  would  be  no  easy  job.  In 

the  people  aU ino0lt  Stcffc™«  "&  Mexico 
and  childr^  and  theyT/e  n^af raid" to 
aie.  in  the  many  instances  where  they 
have  been  stood  up  against  a  wall  and 
snot,  they  never  flinched,  not  one.  There- 
fore a  war  of  subjugation  in  Mexico  would 
nave  to  be  a  war  of  extermination.  They 
have  tasted  of  liberty  and  will  die  rather 
than  surrender  it." 

Because  of  these  qualities  in  the  Mexi- 
cans the  military  experts  in  bur  Govern- 
ment reported  to  President  Taft  four 
years  ago  that  the  conquest  of  Mexico 
would  require  the  services  of  250,000  of 
our  fellow  citizens  in  the  field  with  death- 
dealing  instruments  for  four  years.  And 
what  for?  THE  ANSWER  is  THAT  OUR  EN- 
TRY INTO  MEXICO  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  CON- 
QUEST WOULD  BE  AS  IGNOBLE  AS  WAS  THE 
CONQUEST  OF  BELGIUM. 

PAN  AMERICAN  PROGRAM  TOWARDS 
MEXICO. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  idea  of  the  Gov- 
ernments of  the  American  Republics  other 
than  Mexico  is  that  Mexican  sovereignty 

make  a  treaty  with  it  as  we  have  done 
with  Cuba— that  if  Mexico  does  not  pre- 
serve law  and  order  the  United  States 
shall  do  so."  (Page  12451.)  The  proba- 
ble cost  in  American  lives  and  taxes  will 
presently  be  stated. 


shall  be  respected.  Therefore  in  case  the 
existing  Mexican  Government  shall  be  un- 
able to  restore  order  and  maintain  peace 
then  the  necessary  aid  will  be  given  by 
the  united  help  of  all  the  other  American 
Republics. 

Much  discussion  has  taken  place,  neces- 
sarily, as  to  just  how  the  Pan  American 


forces  would  be  used  should  a  time  come 
when,  in  the  judgment  of  a  majority  of 
the  Pan  American  Governments,  they 
should  march  into  MEXICO.  BUT  AS  YET 

THERE  IS  NO  IDEA  AMONG  THESE  GOVERN- 
MENTS THAT  THE  PEOPLE  OF  MEXICO  NEED 
THIS  KIND  OF  OUTSIDE  ASSISTANCE.  Here 

in  brief  are  the  facts  in  the  case. 


THE  FACTS  ABOUT  MEXICO. 


On  August  5,  1915,  the  representatives 
of  seven  of  the  Progressive  Pan  American 
states  met  together  in  Washington  to  con- 
sider the  Mexican  situation.  A  few  days 
later  they  addressed  an  appeal  to  the  fac- 
tional leaders  in  Mexico  proposing  that 
they  meet  in  a  conference  with  the  Pan 
American  representatives  and  agree  upon 
a  provisional  government.  General  Car- 
ranza refused;  that  plan  had  been  tried 
and  it  had  failed. 

On  September  18,  the  Pan  American 
representatives  met  in  New  York.  After 
deliberating  and  confering  for  three 
weeks,  some  of  the  time  with  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Carranza  Government, 
they  unanimously  agreed  to  recommend  to 
their  respective  governments  that  this 
Carranza  Government  be  recognized.  The 
unanimous  judgment  was  that  this  de 
facto  Government  possessed  more  of  "the 
material  and  moral  capacity  necessary  to 
protect  the  lives  and  property  of  natives 
and  foreigners"  than  did  any  other  fac- 
tion. At  that  time  the  Carranza  Govern- 
ment occupied  75  per  cent,  of  Mexico's 
area. 

Before,  however,  the  Pan  American  rep- 
resentatives granted  this  recognition  they 
received  from  First  Chief  Carranza  a 
promise : 

(1)  THAT  THE  LIVES  AND  PROPERTY  OF 
FOREIGNERS  AND  NATIVES  IN  MEXICO  WILL 
BE  PROTECTED; 

(2)  THAT  RELIGIOUS  FREEDOM  WILL  BE 
MAINTAINED; 

(3)  THAT  THE  MEMBERS  OF  RELIGIOUS 

ORDERS     WILL     BE     PERMITTED     TO     RETURN 

AND  BE  SECURE  IN  LIFE  AND  PROPERTY  ON 
CONDITION  THAT  THEY  WILL  NOT  ENTER 
POLITICS; 

(4)  THAT  GENERAL  AMNESTY  BE  GRANT- 
ED TO  MEXICANS,  EXCEPTING  THE  REAL  LEAD- 
ERS  OF   THE  OPPOSING  FACTIONS; 

(5)  THAT  THE  DE  FACTO  GOVERNMENT 

WOULD  TAKE  STEPS  TO  RESTORE  LAW  AND 
ORDER,  PROVIDE  FOR  GENERAL  ELECTIONS  AND 
THE  RESTORATION  OF  THE  CONSTITUTIONAL- 
IST GOVERNMENT  IN  MEXICO.  (International 
Year  Book,  1915,  title  Mexico.) 

The  several  Pan  American  Governments 
approved  the  action  of  their  representa- 
tives. Carranza  agreed  to  send  repre- 
sentatives to  each  of  these  countries.  Then 
Nicaragua  and  Columbia  joined  with  the 
other  seven  nations  and  the  United 
States  Government  ordered  an  embargo 


upon  all  shipment  of  arms  from  this 
country  into  Mexico  except  to  the  Car- 
ranza Government. 

THIS  CARRANZA  GOVERNMENT  AT  ONCE 
MADE  SUBSTANTIAL  PROGRESS  IN  THE  SUB- 
JUGATION OF  THE  OTHER  FACTIONS.  The 
larger  part  of  two  of  the  factions  quickly 
surrendered.  The  leader  of  a  third  was 
killed.  Villa,  however,  refused  to  yield, 
but  most  of  his  adherents  did  so.  (Inter- 
national Year  Book,  1915,  title  Mexico.) 

Great  Britain  and  several  of  the  other 
European  powers  recognized  the  Carranza 
Government. 

While  these  favorable  developments  were 
taking  place,  former  President  Huerta  re- 
turned from  Spain  to  the  United  States 
and  was  permitted  to  land  upon  condition 
that  he  would  not  attempt  to  enter  Mex- 
ico or  Cuba.  Later  he  was  discovered  in 
New  Mexico  in  company  wkh  another  re- 
actionist Mexican  General.  Both  were  ar- 
rested. The  charges  against  them  were 
that  they  were  planning  to  start  a  new 
revolt.  They  were  released  on*  bail  and 
the  general  es'caped  into  Mexico  where  he 
afterwards  was  killed.  Huerta  was  reim- 
prisoned. 

Also  General  Diaz  was  supplied  with 
funds  from  some  source  and  he  started 
a  revolution. 

THE  TROUBLE  HAS  BEEN  AND  IS  THAT 
SOME  OF  THE  RICH  PROPERTY-OWNERS,  OF 
MEXICO — RESIDENTS  AND  NON-RESIDENTS, 
AND  POSSIBLY  SOME  OF  THE  ROMAN  CATH- 
OLIC HIERARCHY  (see  page  3,  above),  ARE 

USING  PART  OF  THEIR  WEALTH  TO  FINANCE 
UPRISING,  AIMING  TO  PREVENT  THE  MEXI- 
CAN PEOPLE  FROM  RESTORING  THEIR  LIBER- 
TIES. In  the  words  of  President  Wilson 
after  the  raid  by  Villa  and  his  bandits  on 
Columbus,  New  Mexico,  which  caused  the 
sending  forth  of  the  punitive  expedition 
into  Mexico: 

"THERE  WERE  PERSONS  ALONG  THE  BOR- 
DER ACTIVELY  ENGAGED  IN  CREATING  FRIC- 
TION BETWEEN  THE  GOVERNMENT  OF  THE 
UNITED  STATES  AND  THE  DE  FACTO  GOV- 
ERNMENT OF  MEXICO  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF 
BRINGING  ABOUT  INTERVENTION  IN  THE  IN- 
TEREST OF  CERTAIN  OWNERS  OF  MEXICAN 
PROPERTIES." 

Among  the  property  owners  in  Mexico  is 
the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy.  The  mo- 
tive of  those  who  caused  the  invasion  of 
our  border  was  to  bring  about  interven- 
tion. 

In  that  Columbus  raid  11  of  our  civili- 
ans were  killed  and  8  United  States  sol- 


diers;  and  also  27  of  the  invading  force. 
Previous  to  this  time  the  number  of 
our  people  on  this  side  of  the  border  who 
had  been  killed  by  Mexican  bandits  or 
mere  thieves  who  had  crossed  over  into 
our  territory,  had  been  20  civilians  and 
16  soldiers.  In  Mexico  the  number  of  our 
people  who  had  been  killed  during  the 
three  years  preceding  the  Columbus  raid 
was  76,  as  compared  with  the  death  of 
47  of  our  people  in  Mexico  during  the 
three  preceding  years.  (Secretary  Lan- 
sing in  a  memorandum  to  the  Senate.) 

Nearly  all  of  the  troubles  of  our  people 
in  Mexico  have  been  caused  by  the  Mexi- 
can people's  distrust  of  us,  as  they  have 
firmly  believed  that  we  as  a  nation  are 
planning  to  capture  their  Government  and 
rule  their  country — rule  it  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  Few,  as  did  President  Diaz. 
That  has  been  and  is  a  leading  cause  of 
the  enmity  against  our  citizens  in  Mexico. 
We  are  looked  upon  as  would-be  robbers. 
AMONG  THE  MEXICAN  PEOPLE  THEMSELVES* 
THE  WAR  is  PRACTICALLY  OVER.  The  num- 
ber of  armed  men  in  the  field  against  the 
Carranza  Government  about  September 
first,  this  year,  was  down  to  12,000,  in  the 
thinly-settled  areas.  (Joseph  de  Courey, 
in  N.  Y.  Times,  September  10,  1916).  // 
the  Mexican  people  believed  that  they 
could  trust  us  tve  could  go  back  into 
Mexico  and  go  to  work. 

ALREADY  THERE  ARE  TWENTY  TIMES  MORE 
SCHOOLS  IN  MEXICO  THAN  EXISTED  UNDER 
THE  LONG-ESTABLISHED  DlAZ  GOVERNMENT. 

This  vast  change  has  come  about  from 
the  restoration  of  local  self-government, 
along  with  Home  rule  in  the  States  and 
the  establishment  of  Progressive  State 
Governments,  in  co-operation  with  the 
Carranza  National  Government. 

In  State  affairs  many  reforms  in  the 
land  laws  have  been  enacted.  The  lands 
in  common  which  were  taken  from  the 
public  by  the  Diaz  Reactionary  Govern- 
ment are  being  restored.  The  immense 
agricultural  estates  are  being  broken  up, 
as  in  New  Zealand.  Progressive  labor 
laws  are  being  enacted.  In  some  parts 
of  Mexico  the  farmers  and  the  wage- 
earners  are  each  organized  to  some  ex- 
tent and  are  a  balance  of  power  in  these 
Progressive  Mexican  Governments,  the 
same  as  in  our  own  United  States  Gov- 
ernment, and  the  other  progressive  .gov- 
ernments throughout  the  world. 

In  the  State  of  Yucatan,  for  example, 
where  only  a  few  foreign  investors  exist? 
to  complicate  the  situation,  the  revolution- 
ary fighting  was  finished  two  years  ago 
and  the  new  order  is  far  along.  The 
people  in  place  of  being  real  slaves  tied 
to  their  masters,  and  without  education, 
are  now  free  and  there  are  2,400  public 
schools,  part  of  which  are  continued  at 
night  for  the  benefit  of  the  adults.  The 
lands  which  formerly  were  held  in  com- 
mon and  then  were  taken  from  the  people, 
have  been  returned  to  them  and  40,000  of 
the  50,000  families  have  each  purchased 


forty  acres  of  land  agreeing  to  pay  gold, 
backed  by  the  guarantee  of  Yucatan. 
Child  labor  under  thirteen  years  is  abol- 
ished; up-to-date  factory  regulations  are 
in  operation,  together  with  compulsory 
arbitration  of  disputes  between  employers 
and  employees.  All  of  this  is  being  ac- 
complished by  the  native  population,  prin- 
cipally, descendants  of  those  whom  the 
Spaniards  conquered  and  who  previously 
had  had  a  wonderful  civilization,  as  the 
ancient  ruins  demonstrate.  (N.  Y.  Times, 
October  1,  1916.) 

Laws  restricting  the  use  of  intoxicating 
liquor  have  been  enacted,  with  excellent 
results,  the  same  as  among  us. 

The  army  is  being  reorganized  and  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  be  less  readily  used 
for  political  rivalries  and  tyrannies. 

First  Chief  Carranza  is  honest  and  he 
is  not  a  dictator.  AND  HE  AND  HIS  COL- 
LEAGUES ARE  CUTTING  OUT  PRIVATE  MONOPO- 
LIES AS  FAR  AS  POSSIBLE. 

These  qualities  in  the  existing  Mexican 
National  Government  are  testified  to  from 
various  sources.  We  have  the  following 
from  Lincoln  Steffens,  the  "true-blue" 
American  of  whom  all  of  us  have  at  least 
heard : 

LINCOLN  STEFFEN'S  TESTIMONY. 

"One  day  in  Mexico  City  a  big  Ameri- 
can concessionaire  was  damning  Car- 
ranza," says  Steffen.  "I  remarked,"  con- 
tinues Steffen,  "that  he  didn't  put  dishon- 
esty into  the  catalogue  of  his  faults."  "Oh, 
no,"  he  answered,  "  'he's  honest.  We 
know  that.' "  And  with  a  laugh,  he 
added :  "  'We  know  it,  because  we  tried 
him.' " 

"But,"  says  Steffen,  "there  is  dishon- 
esty in  the  Carranza  party;  lots  of  it. 
When  you  break  down,  as  this  Mexican 
earthquake  has  done,  the  big,  orderly  sys- 
tem of  regular  'honest'  graft,  then  a  vast 
amount  of  petty  graft  takes  its  place.  .  .  . 
Mexico  is  having  just  now  her  Tweed 
days. 

"Carranza  is  not  a  dictator.  Only  the 
foreigners  want  another  'strong  man/ 
The  First  Chief  is  building  his  power 
slowly  but  steadily,  AND  HE  is  TRYING  TO 

BUILD  IT  DEMOCRATICALLY.     He  is  going  all 

over  Mexico  to  meet  his  people,  get  their 
confidence  and  by  and  by  get  their  votes. 
It's  like  an  American  political  campaign. 
Only  Carranza  does  not  make  many 
speeches,  and  those  he  does  make  are 
short,  plain,  not  exciting.  He  is  no  dema- 
gogue. .  .  . 

"The  First  Chief  and  his  inner  circle 
need  the  power  of  the  people  to  awe  and 
check  the  power  of  the  outer  circle  of  sec- 
ond  chiefs,  and  third,  and  fourth,  and  his  ' 
enemies  and  Mexico's  enemies.  He  is  the 
head  now  of  an  oligarchy;  his  power  is 
military;  it  is  made  up  of  the  powers  con- 
tributed by  the  uncertain  loyalties  of  gen- 
erals and  chiefs.  .  .  .  EVERYBODY  is  WITH 

HIM    NOW,   OR  PRETENDS   TO  BE.      MILITARY 


POWER  BR«OKS  NO  FREE  SPEECH." — (Every- 
body's Magazine,  June,  1916.) 

THE  MILITARY  GOVERNMENT. 

This  Military  Government  is  dominant 
in  civil  affairs  and  is  expressing  itself  by 
means  of  orders.  In  this  way  it  has  rec- 
ognized the  several  reformed  State  Gov- 
ernments and  the  reformed  local  govern- 
ments, and  has  temporarily  settled  the 
National  issues.  For  example,  the  State 
Governments  have  no  jurisdiction  over  the 
public  domain,  the  power  being  vested  in 
the  National  Government.  THE  ELECTION 

OF  DELEGATES  TO  A  NATIONAL  CONSTITU- 
TIONAL CONVENTION  HAS  BEEN  ORDERED,  TO 
BE  FOLLOWED  BY  THE  ELECTION  OF  MEM- 
BERS OF  A  CONGRESS  AND  A  PRESIDENT.  In 

the  meantime  by  acts  of  the  State  Gov- 
ernments approved  by  the  National  Mili- 
tary Government  there  is  being  restored 
to  the  people  the  lands  which  were  taken 
from  them  unconstitutionally,  and  the  in- 
dustrial system  is  being  recast.  From 
time  to  time,  however,  some  law  is  enacted 
or  is  proposed  which -pur  Secretary  of 
State  believes  to  be  in  violation  of  Ameri- 
can International  law  and  he  so  states  to 
Mexico's  representative. 

The  serious  trouble  has  principally  come 
from  the  wealthy  few  and  the  Roman 
Catholics  priests.  But  the  danger  has 
been  successfully  overcome  owing  to  sup- 
port for  the  Carranza  National  Govern- 
ment BY  THE  PAN-AMERICAN  GOVERNMENTS 
AND  BY  THE  EUROPEAN  GOVERNMENTS,  as 

we  have  shown.  The  present  danger  is 
that  the  voters  in  our  own  United  States 
may  be  deceived  by  Big  Business  and  the 
other  Reactionists,  RESULTING  IN  THE  RES- 
TORATION TO  POWER  OF  THE  REPUBLICAN  OR- 
GANIZATION IN  THIS  COUNTRY,  PLEDGED  TO 
GO  INTO  MEXICO  AND  BECOME  ITS  OWNER. 

We  have  yet  to  present  President  Wil- 
son's statement  in  his  own  defense.  Pre- 
ceding it  is  an  outline  of  Mexican  politi- 
cal history. 

MEXICAN  HISTORY,  1810-1916. 

In  1821  most  of  the  people  to  the  south 
of  the  United  States,  in  Central  and  South 
America,  after  elevn  years  of  warfare 
won  their  independence  from  Spain.  In 
Mexico  there  was  first  an  Empire  and  then 
a  Progressive  Republic.  After  fourteen 
years  of  this  new  order  a  Reactionary  Dic- 
tatorship was  established.  This  occurred 
in  1835.  Later,  the  people  won  back  their 
freedom.  Again  they  lost  it.  Then  dur- 
ing the  years  1855  to  1861  was  success- 
fully fought  The  War  of  Reform.  AT 
ONCE  THE  MEXICAN  REACTIONISTS  SUC- 
CEEDED IN  ENLISTING  SOME  OF  THE 

EUROPEAN  REACTIONISTS  TO  COME  OVER  AND 
HELP  THEM.  Taking  as  a  pretext  the  fail- 
ure of  the  Liberal  Mexican  Government 
to  pay  the  interest  on  the  public  debt,  the 
governments  of  France,  Spain  and  Great 


Britain  sent  troops  into  Mexico.  Shortly 
thereafter  Great  Britain  and  Spain  with- 
drew their  troops.  THE  FRENCH  AND  THE 
MEXICAN  REACTIONISTS  MANAGED  TO  RE- 
ESTABLISH AN  EMPIRE,  PLACING  ON  THE 
THRONE  MAXIMILLIAN,  AN  AUSTRIAN  AND 

A    ROMAN    CATHOLIC. 

Toward  the  close  of  our  Civil  War  our 
Government  notified  the  French  Roman 
Catholic  Government  that  it  must  with- 
draw its  forces  from  this  continent.  This 
was  completed  in  1867,  and  then  the  Lib- 
eral Mexican  forces  under  President 
Jaurez  recaptured  the  Mexican  Govern- 
ment. 

This  Liberal  Mexican  Government  con- 
tinued for  five  years  until  the  death  of 
Jaurez,  1872.  This  Government  estab- 
lished Free  Institutions.  Upon  the  death 
of  President  Jaurez  his  successor  was  a 
Liberal  and  the  Progressive  Government 
continued  in  power  for  four  years,  until 
overthrown  by  a  Reactionist  Revolution 
under  the  leadership  of  General  Porfiro 
Diaz.  Diaz  thus  became  President,  and 
at  the  head  of  the  Reactionists  he  ruled 
from  1876  to  1910,  a  period  of  34  years, 
at  which  time  under  the  leadership  of 
Francisco  I.  Madero,  a  highly  educated 
gentleman  and  a  patriot,  he  was  unseated. 
Diaz  fled  to  Europe. 

Under  the  Presidency  of  Diaz,  Mexico 
had  been  opened  up  to  Big  Business.  At 
first  the  concessions*  granted  were  reason- 
ably fair.  But  during  the  years  follow- 
ing 1876,  at  a  time  ivhen  all  of  the  pro- 
gressive countries  of  the  world  went  back- 
ward into  reactionism,  MEXICO  DID  LIKE- 
WISE. A  system  of  peonage  was  gradually 
re-introduced.  The  lands  held  in  common 
for  the  use  of  all  the  people  were  sold. 
And  as  Mexico  grew  rich  the  Mexican 
people  grew  poor.  Madero  raised  the 
standard  of  revolt  in  1910  and  won. 

Again  Reaction  got  in  its  work.  Ma- 
dero's  own  leading  general,  Huerta, 
tricked  him,  and  then  while  Huerta  held 
Madero  as  prisoner  he  caused  him  to  be 
murdered.  Huerta  then  wired  the  Taft 
Government  at  Washington,  "I  have  over- 
thrown the  Government,  and  henceforth 
peace  and  order  will  re%n." 

President  Taft  refused  to  recognize 
Huerta,  as  he  had  a  perfect  right  to  do.  It 
is  only  armed  intervention  that  is  prohib- 
ited by  international  law.  President  Taft 
continued  his  policy  of  leaving  the  Mexi- 
can people  to  settle  for  themselves  the 
question  of  who  should  become  the  ruling 
power.  On  February  26,  1912,  just  be- 
fore President  Aaft  retired  from  office,  he 
said: 

PRESIDENT  TAFT'S  ATTITUDE. 

"WE  MUST  AVOID  IN  EVERY  WAY  WHAT  IS 
CALLED  INTERVENTION  AND  USE  ALL  PA- 
TIENCE POSSIBLE,  with  the  prayer  that 
some  power  may  arise  there  to  bring  al 
peace  to  that  troubled  country.  .  . 


/  have  no  sympathy — none  at  all,  and  the 
charge  of  cowardice  does  not  frighten  me 

— WITH  THAT  WHICH  PROMPTS  US  FOR  PUR-  * 
POSE  OF  EXPLOITATION  AND  GAIN  TO  INVADE 
ANOTHER  COUNTRY  AND  INVOLVE  OURSELVES 
IN  A  WAR,  THE  EXTET  OF  WHICH  WE  COULD 
NOT  REALIZE,  AND  THE  SACRIFICE  OF  THOU- 
SANDS OF  LIVES  AND  OF  MILLIONS  OF  TREAS- 
URE/' 

Jfvre  is  a  Republican  precedent  for 
President  Wilson's  Mexican  policy. 

And  there  is  still  another  precedent, 
that  of  President  Lincoln  at  the  time  when 
the  European  Roman  Catholics  were 
claiming  that  the  welfare  of  humanity  de- 
manded that  they  step  in  and  take  charge 
in  Mexico.  This  they  afterward  did  tem- 
porarily, as  we  have  described,  owing  to 
our  Government  being  engaged  in  civil 
war.  Near  the  beginning  of  the  European 
talk  of  intervention  in  Mexico,  President 
Lincoln,  through  his  Secretary  of  State, 
wrote  as  follows  to  the  Mexican  Secretary 
of  State: 

PRESIDENT   LINCOLN'S   ATTITUDE. 

"For  a  few  years  past  the  condition  of 
Mexico  has  been  so  unsettled  as  to  raise 
the  question  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic 
whether  the  time  has  not  come  when  some 
foreign  power  ou:;ht,  in  the  interest  of  so- 
ciety generally,  to  intervene — to  establish 
a  protectorate  or  some  form  of  govern- 
ment in  that  country  and  guarantee  its 
continuance  there.  \You  WILL  NOT  FAIL  TO 
ASSURE  THE  GOVERNMENT  OF  MEXICO  THAT 
THE  PRESIDENT  NEITIILR  HAS,  NOR  CAN 
EVER  HA\E,  ANY  SYMPATHY  WITH  SUCH  DE- 
SIGNS, IN  WHATEVER  QUARTER  THEY  MAY 
ARISE  OR  WHATEVER  CHARACTER  THEY  MAY 
TAKE  ON.  The  President  never  for  a  mo- 
ment doubts  that  the  Republican  system 
is  to  pass  safely  through  all  ordeals  and 
prove  a  permanent  success  in  pur  own 
country,  and  so  be  recommended  for  adop- 
tion by  all  the  other  nations.  But  he 
thinks  also  tliat  the  system  everywhere 
has  to  make  "its  way  painfully  through 
difficulties  and  embarrassments  WHICH 

REULT  FROM  THE  ACTION  OF  ANTAGONISTIC 
ELEMENTS  WHICH  AI.E  A  LEGACY  OF  FORMER 
TIMES  AND  VERY  DIFFERENT  INSTITUTIONS. 

The  President  is  hopeful  of  the  ultimate 
triumph  of  this  system -over  all  obstacles 
as  well  in  regard  to  Mexico  as  in  regard 
to  every  other  American  State;  BUT  HE 
FEELS  THAT  THOSE  STATES  ARE  NEVERTHE- 
LESS JUSTLY  ENTITLED  TO  A  GEEATER  FOR- 
BEARANCE AND  MORE  GENEROUS  SYMPATHIES 
FROM  THE  GOVERNMENT  AND  PEOPLE  OF  THE 
UNITED  STATES  THAN  THEY  ARE  LIKELY  TO 
RECEIVE  IN  ANY  OTHER  QUARTER." 

President  Lincoln's  hopes  for  Mexico 
were  realized. 

And  equally  go,  undoubtedly,  will  be  the 
hopes  and  the  faith  of  President  Taft  and 
President  Wilson.  Following  is  what 
President  Wilson  said  in  his  annual  mes- 
sage of  December,  1915: 


PRESIDENT  WILSON'S  ATTITUDE. 

"FROM  THE  FIRST  WE  HAVE  MADE  COM- 
MON CAUSE  WITH  ALL  PARTISANS  OF  LIB- 
ERTY ON  THIS  SIDE  THE  SEA,  and  have 
deemed  it  as  important  that  our  neigh- 
bors should  be  free  from  all  outside  domi- 
nation as  that  we  ourselves  should  be; 
this  continent  as  a  whole  having  been  set 
aside  for  independent  nations  and  politi- 
cally free  men." 

In  a  preceding  portion  of  his  message 
President  Wilson  said: 

"All  the  Governments  of  America  stand, 
as  far  as  we  are  concerned,  upon  a  foot- 
ing of  genuine  equality  and  unquestioned 
independence. 

"WE  HAVE  BEEN  PUT  TO  THE  TEST  IN  THE 
CASE  OF  MEXICO,  AND  WE  HAVE  STOOD  THE 

TEST.  Whether  we  have  benefited  Mexico 
by  the  course  we  have  pursued  remains  to 
be  seen.  HER  FORTUNES  ARE  IN  HER  OWN 
HANDS.  But  we  have  at  least  proved  that 
we  will  not  take  advantage  of  her  in  her 
distress  and  undertake  to  impose  upon  her 
an  order  and  government  of  our  own 
choosing.  Liberty  is  often  a  fierce  and  in- 
tractable thing,  to  which  no  bounds  can 
be  set,  and  to  which  no  bounds  of  a  few 
men's  choosing  ought  ever  to  be  set.  Every 
American  who  has  drunk  at  the  true  foun- 
tain of  principle  and  tradition  must  sub- 
scribe without  reservation  to  the  high  doc- 
trine of  the  Virginia  Bill  of  Rights,  which 
in  the  Treat  days  in  which  our  Govern- 
ment was  set  up  was  everywhere  among 
us  accepted  as  the  creed  of  free  men. 

"That  doctrine  is,  'that  government  is, 
or  ought  to  be,  instituted  for  the  common 
benefit,  protection,  and  security  of  the 
people,  nation,  or  community';  that  'of  all 
the  various  modes  and  forms  of  govern- 
ment, that  is  the  best  which  is  capable 
of  producing  the  greatest  degree  of  hap- 
piness and  safety,  and  is  most  effectually 
secured  against  the  danger  of  maladmin- 
istration; and  that  when  any  government 
shall  be  found  inadequate  or  contrary  to 
these  purposes,  a  majority  of  the  com- 
munity hath  an  indubitable,  inalienable, 
and  indefeasible  right  to  reform,  alter,  or 
abolish  it,  in  such  manner  as  shall  be 
judged  inost  conducive  to  the  public  weal.' 

WE  HAVE  UNHESITATINGLY  APPLIED  THAT 
HEROIC  PRINCIPLE  TO  THE  CASE  IN  MEXICO 
AND  MOW  HOPEFULLY  AWAIT  THE  RE-BIRTH 
OF  THE  TROUBLED  REPUBLIC,  WHICH  HAD  SO 
MUCH  OF  WHICH  TO  PURGE  ITSELF  AND  SO 
LITTLE  SYMPATHY  FROM  ANY  OUTSIDE  QUAR- 
TER IN  THE  RADICALJJUT  NECESSARY  PRO- 
CESS. We  will  aid  and  befriend  Mexico, 

BUT    WE    WILL    NOT    COERCE    HER,    and    OUr 

course  with  regard  to  her  ought  to  be 
sufficient  proof  to  all  America  that  we 
seek  no  political  suzerainty  or  selfish  con- 
trol." 

Early  in  1916  as  the  time  for  selecting 
a  Republican  Presidential  nominee  drew 
near  several  of  the  aspirants  demanded 


.n'ervention  in  Mexico,  and  in  reply  the 
iui  lowing  editorial  appeared  in  the  New 
York  Times  of  January  16 : 

NEW  YORK  TIMES'  EDITORIAL. 
"In  view  of  the  recognition  of  Carranza 
as  the  defacto  ruler  of  Mexico  NO  OTHER 

COURSE  BUT  TO  PERMIT  HIM  TO  SUBDUE  THE 
CRIMINAL  ELEMENT  IN  THE  MEXICAN  POPU- 
LATION WOULD  BE  CONSISTENT.  To  depart 
from  it  could  endanger  our  friendly  rela- 
tions with  the  other  Latin- American  coun- 
tries, end  all  hope  of  the  pacification  of 
Mexico  by  Mexicans  under  Constitutional- 
ist direction,  and  would  tend  to  unite  all 
factions  in  that  country  against  us." 
ATTITUDE  OF  REPUBLICAN  POLITICIANS. 

One  month  later,  February,  1916,  at 
the  New  York  State  Republican  conven- 
tion, the  chairman  was  former  Senator 
Elihu  Root,  and  he  urged  armed  inter- 
vention in  Mexico. 

The  next  day  on  the  floor  of  Congress 
he  was  answered  by  Senator  Lewis,  of 
Illinois,  who  pointed  out  that  while  there 
were  serious  disorders  in  Mexico  during 
President  Taft's  administration,  still  Mr. 
Root  did  not  urge  armed  intervention ;  but 
that  now,  when  he  believes  that  his  party 
can  gain  an  advantage  by  urging  it,  he 
is  pressing  the  demand.  Senator  Lewis 
added : 

"What  is  the  meaning  of  this  strange 
hypocrisy  of  statesmanship?"  (Congres- 
sional Record,  Feb.  19,  1916.) 

In  the  present  campaign  former  Sena- 
tor Beveridge,  of  Indiana,  in  a  widely  dis- 
tributed speech,  said: 

"There  are  only  two  sane  courses  to 
take  in  Mexico — to  go  in  and  restore  order 
to  the  anarchy-maddened  creatures  of  that 
country,  or  to  keep  out  and  leave  them 
to  their  mutual  destruction." 

The  truth  is,  that  for  some  months  the 
Carranza  Government  has  been  in  un- 
molested control  of  nearly  the  entire  area 
throughout  Mexico.  September  first,  1916, 
12,000  of  the  13,000  miles  of  Mexican  rail- 
roads were  being  operated  under  the  jur- 
isdiction of  the  Carranza  Government. 
Exports  from  the  United  States  to  Mexico 
for  the  year  ending  June,  1916,  were  al- 
most as  large  as  the  year  before  the 
Revolution  began;  and  on  September  first, 
this  year,  our  imports  from  Mexico  dur- 
ing 1916  were  thirty-five  per  cent,  greater 
than  for  1906.  During  August,  1916,  the 
earnings  of  the  Government  railroads  in 
Mexico  were  nearly  forty  times  larger 
than  18  months  before.  (Literary  Digest, 
Sept.  30,  1916.  In  the  words  of  John 
Barrett,  Director-General  of  the  Pan- 
American  Union,  in  an  address  in  New 
York  City,  April  10,  1916:  "THERE  is 

NOW    NO   REVOLUTION    IN    MEXICO,    BUT    AN 

EVOLUTION."    And  he  added: 
DIRECTOR-GENERAL  BARRETT'S  STATEMENT. 
"I  want  you  to  realize  that  from  1861 
to  1865  we  had  a  greater  revolution  than 

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was  ever  known  in  Mexico,  and  that  dur- 
ing the  ten  years  following  it  some  parts 
of  our  country  were  in  chaos." 

Continuing,  he  said:   "THE  SOVEREIGNTY 

OF   A   NATION    IS   ITS   GREATEST   POSSESSION. 

So  without  making  any  observations  re- 
garding our  Mexican  policy,  I  invite  you 
to  remember,  that  there  are  two  sides  in 
every  story.  I  BELIEVE  THAT  MEXICO  WILL 

STRAIGHTEN  OUT  AND  BE  A  PEACEFUL  AND 
POWERFUL  NATION  IN  THE  PAN-AMERICAN 

UNION.  We  all  want  to  see  peace  in 
Mexico,  but  we  want  to  see  peace  with  re- 
spect for  national  sovereignty."  New 
York  Times,  April  11,  1916.) 

Summary  and  Conclusion — The  Issues 
Joined. 

Isn't  it  clear  that  the  people  of  Mexico 
should  be  left  free  to  work  out  their  own 
reforms?  The  principal  difficulty  for  some 
time  has  been  that  Big  Business  has  been 
using  a  portion  of  its  wealth  to  stir  up 
strife;  and  there,  as  in  our  own  country, 
there  has  been  strife  between  some  of  the 
Germans  and  the  Government,  and  Cleri- 
calism is  a  live  issue.  But  recall  the 
words  of  Director-General  Barrett  of  the 
Pan- American  Union:  "There  is  now  no 
revolution  in  Mexico,  but  evolution."  IF 

AT  ANY  TIME  OUTSIDE  INTERFERENCE  IS 
NEEDED  THE  PAN- AMERICAN  GOVERNMENTS 
WHICH  OFFICIALLY  RECOGNIZED  THE  CAR- 
RANZA GOVERNMENT,  CAN  AGAIN  ACT 

JOINTLY,  SIMILARLY  TO  THE  WAY  THE  LEAD- 
ING GOVERNMENTS  OF  EARTH  ACTED  AT  THE 
TIME  OF  THE  BOXER  UPRISING  IN  CHINA. 

The  underlying  connection  between 
President  Wilson  and  his  Mexican  policy 
is  his  sympathy  for  the  Mexican  people. 
In  his  own  words  in  his  recent  speech  of 
acceptance:  "The  people  of  Mexico  are 
striving  for  the  rights  that  are  funda- 
mental to  life  and  happiness — 15,000,000 
oppressed  men,  overburdened  women,  and 
pitiful  children  in  virtual  bondage  in  their 
own  home  of  fertile  lands  and  inexhaust- 
ible treasure!  Some  of  the  leaders  of  the 
revolution  may  often  have  been  mistaken 
and  violent  and  selfish,  BUT  THE  REVOLU- 
TION ITSELF  WAS  INEVITABLE  AND  18 
RIGHT." 

On  the  other  hand  there  are  the  strong 
and  selfish  interests  that  are  doing  their 
utmost  to  terminate  the  Mexican  Pro- 
gressive Governments.  Will  these  Reac- 
tionists succeed?  WILL  YOU  AID  THEM  BY 

YOUR  VOTE? 

Tremendously  more  is  involved  than  the 
welfare  of  the  Mexican  people:  The  lib- 
erties of  our  own  100,000,000  people  are 
at  stake!  If  the  Republican  Organization 
is  voted  back  into  power  in  our  National 
Government  it  will  not  only  send  our  sol- 
dier boys  into  Mexico  to  be  shot  and  killed 
by  the  thousands,  BUT  AMONG  OURSELVES 

THERE  WILL  BE  A  RESTORATION  OF  THE 
SPECIAL  INTERESTS !  WE  OURSELVES,  WOULD 


GO     BACK     INTO    BONDAGE.       Don't    overlook 

iiMit  i'act. 

In  the  words  of  the  Commission  on 
1  e^ce  and  Arbitration  of  the  Protestant 
v^iiurches  of  Christ  in  America: 

"War  with  Mexico  will  set  back. all  the 
gains  of  the  peace  movement  a  generation, 
discouraging  the  Churches  arid  even  pro- 
iubit  our  leading  in  forming  Leagues  for 
Peace,  World  Courts  or  doing  any  con- 
structive work,  AND  WILL  TEND  TO  FASTEN 
MILITARISM  UPON  OUR  OWN  COUNTRY." 

Also  the  people  in  the  other  Latin- 
American  Republics  will  realize  that  they 
have  to  deal  with  buccaneers.  AIL  of 
which  would  interfere  frightfully  with  our 
trade  with  them — all  for  the  short-sighted 
selfishness  of  the  Reactionists. 

The  fact  is  that  the  Republican  National 


Convention  deliberately  planned  for  a  re- 
turn to  the  old-time  over-lordship  by  the 
United  States  throughout  Latin- America 
if  the  Reactionists  are  returned  to  power 
on  November  7th.  The  platform  declara- 
tion concerning  Latin-America  expressly 
says: 

"We  favor  the  continuance  of  Republi- 
can policies  [as  distinguished  from  the 
New  Pan  Americanism]." 

History  plainly  tells  what  the  Republi- 
can policies  toward  Latin-America  have 
been — policies  described  by  James  G. 
Elaine  and  others,  setting  forth  how  the 
Latin- Americans  were  used  in  such  a  man- 
ner by  Reactionist  United  States  Govern- 
ments that  they  became  more  and  more 
unfriendly,  toward  us,  culminating  in  our 
conquest  of  Porto  Rico,  the  Philippines 
and  Panama. 


Chapter  IV. 

ROMAN    CATHOLIC    PRELATES    IN    THE    UNITED    STATES    ARE    FIGHTING 

AGAINST    FREEDOM    FOR    THE    PHILIPPINE    PEOPLE,    AIDED    BY 

BIG  BUSINESS  AND  THE  REPUBLICAN  ORGANIZATION. 


An  outline  of  Philippine  history  is  set 
forth  in  our  opening  statement.  The  un- 
disputed evidence  shows  that  the  Roman 
Catholic  prelates  in  the  United  States  are. 
fighting  against  freedom  for  the  Philip- 
pine people,  aided  by  Big  Business  and 
the  Republican  Organization.  The  Re- 
publican platform  is  as  follows: 

RENEWAL  or  CONQUEST  IN   THE  PHILIP- 
PINES. 

"We  renew  our  allegiance  to  the  Philip- 
pine policy  inaugurated  by  McKinley,  ap- 
proved by  [a  Republican']  Congress,  and 
consistently  carried  out  by  Roosevelt  and 
Taft." 

Here  is  a  flat-flooted  declaration  for 
the  policy  of  Conquest  and  the  holding  of 
Subjects,  the  exact  opposite  of  Republi- 
canism and  Democracy.  The  existing 
Democratic  National  Government  has 
promised  independence  to  the  people  of 
the  Philippines,  and  more  and  more  of 
their  citizens  are  being  placed  in  charge 
of  their  own  government.  On  July  7,  1916, 
the  A.ssociated  Press  stated  that  "some  of 
the  biggest  shifts  in  the  personnel  of  the 
Government  of  the  Philippines  in  recent 
years  are  now  occurring.  (N.  Y.  Evening 
Post,  Au<r.  5,  1916.) 

The  d'i7ere~re  between  aiding  the  peo- 

?le  of  the  Philippine  -Islands  .to  become 
ree — self-governing  as  rapidly  as  they 
are  able,  under  a  promise  of  thus  aiding 
them,  and  the  opposite  policy  of  conquest 
— the  taking  possession  of  a  people  as 
political  slaves  and  continuing  to  hold 


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them  as  such,  is  of  transcendent  impor- 
tance. Only  the  reactionists  or  the  misin- 
formed Jiave  insisted  that  the  promise  of 
freedom  be  withheld.  AND  THE  REAC- 
TIONISTS IN  THIS  COUNTRY  ARE  THE  ONES 
WHO,  THROUGH  THE  ILLEGITIMATE  USB  OP 
MONEY  AND  THE  AID  OF  THE  ROMAN  CATH- 
OLIC HIERARCHY,  HAVE  FOR  TWENTY  YEARS 

CR  MORE  DOMINATED  THE  REPUBLICAN  NA- 
TIONAL CONVENTIONS  AND  THE  REPUBLI- 
CAN NATIONAL  GOVERNMENTS.  ONE  OF  THE 
RESULTS  WAS  THE  BUILDING  UP  OF  THE  VAST 
PRIVATE  MONOPOLIES  IN  THIS  COUNTRY,  THE 
TRUSTS,  THEREBY  ROBBING  OUR  OWN  PEOPLE. 
But  in  1910  these  few  lost  control  of  the 
National  House,  and  two  years  later,  1912, 
lost  control  of  the  Senate  and  the  White 
House.  That  year  the  People  made  a 
clean  sweep.  Some  of  the  changes  in  legis- 
lation that  have  since  come  about  are  de- 
scribed in  this  pamphlet. 

This  year  is  the  first  Presidential  elec- 
tion since  the  Reactionists  were  turned  out 

of  power  AND  THE  SUBJECT  MATTER  OF  THIS 

YEAR'S  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  PLATFORM 
COMPLETELY  DEMONSTRATES  THE  FACT  THAT 
THESE  FEW  DOMINATED  THE  CONVENTION 
WHICH  PUT  IT  FORTH.  One  portion  of  this 
evidence  is  the  declaration  for  there-estab- 
lishment of  conquest  in  the  Philippines; 
•another  portion  of  the  evidence  is  the 
statement  "We  favor  [towards  Latin 
America]  a  continuance  of  Republican 
policies" — policies  decidedly  different  from 
the  New  Pan  Americanism;  and  a  third 
section  of  the  evidence  is  the  declaration 
for  the  conquest  of  Mexico.  We  now  pre- 
sent a  fourth  reactionary  plank  in  the  Re- 
publican platform. 


Chapter  V. 
WORLD-PEACE    PROGRAMS    COMPARED. 


The  reactionary  Republican  plank  re- 
ferred to  is  as  follows: 

"We  believe  in  the  pacific  settlement  of 
i international  disputes  and  favor  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  World  Court  for  that 
purpose." 

The  establishment  of  a  World  Court 
would  still  leave  the  United  States  free  to 
enter  upon  a  buccaneering  policy.  THE 
PLATFORM  COMMITTEE  OF  THE  REPUBLICAN 
NATIONAL  CONVENTION  REFUSED  TO  ADOPT 
THE  PLAN  FOR  A  LEAGUE  TO  ENFORCE 
PEACE.  Therefore  if  the  Republicans  are 
voted  into  officfcby  you,  the  American  peo- 
ple, our  country  will  be  pledged  only  to 
help  establish  a  World  Court,  and  will  be 
opposed  to  our  entering  into  a  World  Fed- 
eration to  Prevent  Aggression;  WHEREAS 

THE  EXISTING  DEMOCRATIC  NATIONAL  GOV- 
ERNMENT HAS  OFFERED  TO  DO  SO.  Should  a 

Republican  Government  be  established  it 
would  refuse  on  the  grounds  that  it  would 
t>e  wrong  to  enter  into  such  an  organiza- 
tion— that  it  would  become  an  entangling 
foreign  alliance. 

Thus  one  of  the  issues  to  be  voted  upon 
n  November  is: 

SHALL  THE  UNITED  STATES  WITHDRAW 

[TS   OFFER   TO   ENTER   A   WORLD    LEAGUE   TO 

PREVENT  AGGRESSION? 
Do  you  say  Yes  or  No? 

Furthermore,  the  existing  Democratic 
National  Government  in  its  Naval  Appro- 
>riation  act  of  some  months  ago  instructs 
'.he  President  "to  invite,  at  an  appropriate 
lime,  not  later  than  the  close  of  the  war 
'n  Europe,  ALL  THE  GREAT  GOVERNMENTS 

OF  THE  WORLD  TO  SEND  REPRESENTATIVES  TO 

A  CONFERENCE  WHICH  SHALL  BE  CHARGED 

WITH  THE  DUTY  OF  FORMULATING  A  PLAN 

FOR  A  COURT  OF  ARBITRATION  OR  OTHER 

TRIBUNAL,  to  which  disputed  questions  be- 

ween  nations  shall  be  referred  for  ad- 

udication  and  peaceful  settlement,: AND  TO 

CONSIDER  THE  QUESTION  OF  DISARMAMENT 
AND  SUBMIT  THEIR  RECOMMENDATION  TO 
HEIR  RESPECTIVE  GOVERNMENTS  FOR  AP- 
PROVAL." The  President  is  further  author- 
zed  "to  appoint  nine  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  who,  in  his  judgment,  shall  be 
qualified  for  the  mission  by  eminence  in 
he  law  and  by  devotion  to  the  cause  of 
>eace,  to  be  representatives  of  the  United 
States  in  such  a  conference."  Two  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  is  appropriated  for 
expenses.  And  this  law  further  provides 
that  whenever  international  organization 
"shall  render  unnecessary  the  maintenance 
of  competitive  armaments,  then,  and  in 
that  case  such  naval  expenditures  as  may 
be  »  inconsistent  with  the  engagements 
made  in  the  establishment  of  such  tribunal 
or  tribunals  may  be  suspended,  when  so 
ordered  by  the  President  of  the  United 
States." 

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This  is  ideal!  It  is  the  largest  and 
grandest  political  program  the  world  has 
ever  witnessed.  The  progressive  United 
States  Government  is  offering  to  join  the 
nations  of  Europe,  Asia,  Africa  and  Am- 
erica in  establishing  permanent  peace  and 
gradual  disarmament  on  the  basis  of  equal 
national  rights. 

This  and  the  whole  general  policy  of  the 
existing  DEMOCRATIC  NATIONAL  GOVERN- 
MENT is  in  the  People's  behalf  and  may  be 
described  as  Preparedness  Plus. 

In  opposition  is  the  REPUBLICAN  NA- 
TIONAL ORGANIZATION,  the  mouth-piece  for 
the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy,  Big  Busi- 
ness, and  other  Reactionists,  and  this  Re- 
publican Organization  pledges  in  this 
year's  platform  that  if  restored  to  power 
in  our  National  Government  it  will  stand 
for  Preparedness  and  Aggression — AG- 
GRESSION BOTH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD.  That 
is,  the  few  men  who  during  the  existence 
of  the  recent  Republican  National  Govern- 
ment constituted  the  Special  Interests — 
the  Trusts,  are  trying  to  return  to  power; 
also  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy  is  trying 
to  again  become  a  balance  of  power  in  this 
country.  Should  these  reactionary  ele- 
ments succeed  they  manifestly  would  re- 
establish the  policy  of  aggression  at  home 
—the  robbing  of  the  people  through  the 
restoration  of  monopoly  prices,  combined 
with  various  other  forms  of  domestic  ag- 
gression; and  the  Republican  national 
platform  expressly  declares  for  foreign 
aggression,  as  we  have  demonstrated. 

Clearly,  then,  the  Republican  National 
Organization  has  proposed  an  immoral 
program — a  proposal  for  unlawful  and 
murderous  attack  upon  the  men,  women 
and  children  of  Mexico;  also  conquest  in 
the  Philippines — together  with  a  refusal 
to  aid  in  the  attainment  of  World  Peace — 
a  straight-out  reactionary  program !  How 
can  a  true  American  vote  for  it? 

The  Republican  National  Convention 
spoke  plainly.  Its  platform  committee, 
headed  by  Senator  Lodge,  stated  in  unmis- 
takable language  a  series  of  declarations 
for  the  restoration  of  the  policies  which 
had  been  in  operation  under  the  Republi- 
can National  Government  of  1898  to 
March  4,  1913.  And  if  a  Republican  Con- 
gress shall  be  elected  in  November  the 
dominant  element  will  be  the  same  im- 
moral interests  that  ruled  within  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention.  THESE 
INTERESTS  ARE  SUPPLYING  A  MAMMOTH 
CAMPAIGN  FUND  AND  IF  THEY  SUCCEED  IN 
COUNTING  IN  THEIR  MEN  THEY  WILL  CON- 
TROL THEIR  ACTIONS.  WlLL  YOU  VOTE  THEIR 
TICKET?  THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  PRELATES 
ARE  SUPPORTING  THE  REPUBLICAN  NOMI- 
NEES. [Pages  3-4,  above.] 


THE  CALL  FOR  HELP  FROM  EUROPE. 

Bear  in  mind  that  in  Europe  both  sides 
in  the  present  war  are  asserting  that  per- 
manent world  peace  should  be  planned  for, 
and  we  know  that  our  stupendous  United 
States  of  America,  the  Colussus  of  the 
West,  is  a  balance  of  power.  Therefore,  if 
we  will  enter  into  the  undertaking  at  the 
close  of  the  war  THE  PLAN  WILL  SUCCEED, 

AND  WITHOUT  US  IT  WILL  FAIL.  THERE- 
FORE AS  THE  VOTE  IS  CAST  IN  THE  FORTH- 
COMING ELECTION,  SO  WILL  THE  DECISION  BE 
FOR  OR  AGAINST  WORLD  PEACE.  In  the 

words  of  Lord  Bryce,  former  Ambassador 
to  this  country  from  Great  Britain: 

"The  creation  of  some  international  al- 
liance embracing  all  peace-loving  nations 


could  hardly  succeed  without  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  greatest  of  all  the  neutral  na- 
tions, the  United  States  of  America.  With 
that  co-operation,  difficult  as  the  efforts  to 
construct  such  a  scheme  will  be,  there  is 
at  least  A  REAL  HOPE  OF  SUCCESS.  Largely 
in  vain  will  this  war  have  been  fought  and 
all  these  sufferings  endured  if  the  peoples 
of  the  world  are  to  fall  back  into  a  state 
of  permanent  alarm  and  suspicion,  and 
each  ivould  be  weighted  down  by  the 
frightful  burden  of  armaments."  (Man- 
chester Guardian,  cabled  to  N.  Y.  Times, 
Oct.  3,  1916.) 

THE  IMPORTANCE,  THEREFORE,  OF  A  RIGHT 
DECISION  IN  THIS  COUNTRY  ON  ELECTION 
DAY  CANNOT  BE  OVER  ESTIMATED. 


Part  III. 
GENERAL  SUMMARY  AND  CONCLUSION. 


Reviewing  as  a  whole  the  issues  set 
forth  in  the  preceding  chapters,  we  see 
that  there  exist  among  our  people  the 
.forces  of  Progress  and  the  forces  of  Re- 
action. The  forces  of  progress  are  operat- 
ing through  the  existing  National  Gov- 
ernment plus  the  Progressives  and  the 
Progressive  Republicans  in  Congress,  re- 
Amoving  legal  privileges  at  home  and  ex- 
tending a  brotherly  hand  abroad.  Peace 
treaties  have  been  entered  into  with  such 
nations  of  the  world  as  would  accept  them. 
Joinder  of  the  American  Republics  for 
self-defense  and  for  the  interchange  of 
trade  has  been  brought  about  except  that 
Mexico  is  still  in  the  throes  of  civil  dis- 
cord and  the  reactionary  element  both  in 
Mexico  and  the  United  States  is  seeking 
to  bring  about  intervention  and  ownership 
by  our  government. 

Opposed  to  the  re-election  of  the  men 
'who  constitute  our  Progressive  National 
fiovemment  ARE  THE  FORCES  OF  REACTION, 

AIMING  TO  RESTORE  THE  LEGAL  PRIVILEGES 
RECENTLY  WRUNG  FROM  THEM,  BOTH  AT 

HOME  AND  ABROAD.  The  men  who,  under 
the  Taft  regime,  were  the  Special  Inter- 
ests are  trying  to  creep  back  into  power. 
pall  their  names  and  you  will  find  that 
.each  one  of  them  is  a  Reactionary  Re- 
publican. THE  REPUBLICAN  PLATFORM 

GOES  SO  FAR  AS  TO  ADMIT  THAT  HO  LONGER 
ARE  THERE  ANY  SPECIAL  INTERESTS  IN  EX- 
ISTENCE NATIONALLY  IN  THIS  COUNTRY. 

The  wording  of  the  platform  is  that  the 
existing  National  Government  is  "perse- 
cuting" big  business;  while  as  to  foreign 
affairs  the  declaration  is,  "We  renew  our 
allegiance  to  the  Philippine  policy  inaugu- 


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rated  by  McKinley."  And  it  pledges  fur- 
there  that  if  restored  to  power  next  No- 
vember it  will  conquer  Mexico,  violate  its 
sovereignty  and  hold  the  Mexicans  as  sub- 
jects— political  slaves.  Therefore  the  Re- 
publican platform  refuses  to  declare  for 
the  new  Pan  Americanism,  as  that  would 
necessitate  the  application  of  brotherhood 
and  a  strict  observance  of  the  sovereignty 
and  territorial  integrity  of  the  Latin- 
American  Republics.  The  wording  of  the 
platform  is  "We  favor  [towards  Latin 
America]  the  continuance  of  Republican 
policies."  Thus  the  ideals  of  Elaine,  Gar- 
field  and  Harrison  and  other  Progressive 
Republicans  are  openly  spat  upon! 

Consistent  with  these  reactionary 
schemes  is  the  further  statement  that  "for 
the  pacific  settlement  of  international  dis- 
putes" we  "favor  the  establishment  of  a 
World  Court,  well  knowing  that  this  of 
itself  would  be  ineffectual.  The  plan  for  a 
World  Court  must  be  coupled  with  an  in- 
ternational agreement  to  prevent  conquest 
and  enforce  the  peaceful  settlement  of  all 
international  disputes. 

Under  such  a  Republican  program  an 
increase  of  military  and  naval  prepared- 
ness if  placed  in  charge  of  a  Republican 
Congress  WOULD  BE  USED  FOR  THE  PROTEC- 
TION OF  THE  RESTORED  SPECIAL  INTERESTS, 

BOTH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD.  IT  WOULD  BE 
PREPAREDNESS  PLUS  AGGRESSION,  BOTH  AT 
HOME  AND  ABROAD. 

On  the  other  hand  if  the  voters  of  the 
United  States  shall  next  November  con- 
tinue in  office  the  men  who  have  wrought 
in  this  country  the  national  reforms  of  the 
past  four  years,  there  will  be  a  continu- 


ance  of  the  NEW  FREEDOM,  both  at  home 
and  abroad.  The  men  who  are  conducting 
Big  Business  will  be  obliged  to  deal  more 
and  more  justly  with  the  public.  The 
needed  reforms  will  continue  to  be 
wrought  while  continuing  to  guard  the 
reforms  already  achieved.  Abroad  there 
will  be  a  continuance  of  fair  dealing  aad 
cooperation,  tremendously  profitable  to  all 
of  our  legitimate  interests.  There  will  be 
a  continuance  of  the  New  Pan  American- 
ism, added  to  which  will  be  the  farther  de- 
velopments now  under  way.  The  sov- 
ereignty of  Mexico  will  not  be  infringed 
nor  a  foot  of  her  territory  be  taken,  BE- 
CAUSE A  STABLE  GOVERNMENT  CAN,  IF  NEC- 
ESSARY, BE  INAUGURATED  UNDER  PAN- 
AMERICAN  AUSPICES.  Our  prevention  of 
bandit  raids  upon  the  United  States  will 
not,  under  the  existing  National  Govern- 
ment, result  in  the  loss  of  Mexico's  sov- 
ereignty. Of  transcendent  importance  wiH 
be  tke  fact  that  we,  the  people  of  the 
United  States  a  nation  100,000,000  strong, 
will  actively  take  a  hand  in  helping  to  es- 
tablish World  Peace. 

These  are  the  two  sides  in  the  ex- 
isting campaign — the  Progressive  and  the 
Reactionary  sides.  The  existing  National 
Government  is  NOT  the  representative  of 
the  men  who  formerly  were  the  Special 
Interests,  THEREFORE  YOU,  MR.  AMERICAN 
CITIZEN,  HAVE  A  TRUE  GUIDE  FOR  DETERMIN- 
ING IN  WHICH  OF  THE  TWO  OPPOSING  CAMPS 
YOU  BELONG. 

Do  not  permit  the  Opposition  leaders  in 
this  country  to  deceive  you.  THEY  ARE 

TRYING   TO   GET    BACK    INTO   POWER.      Their 

personal  future  is  wrapped  up  in  it; 
whereas  you  who  are  mere  voters  have  no 
such  self-interest.  YOUR  SELF-INTEREST  is 

FOR  THE  AVOIDANCE  OF  CONQUEST  IN  MEXICO 
AND  THE  MAINTENANCE  OF  PREPAREDNESS 
UNTIL  SUCH  TIME  AS  COMPETITION  IN  ARMA- 
MENT IS  TERMINATED.  ALSO  YOUR  SELF- 
INTEREST  IS  FOR  THE  CONTINUANCE  OF  THE 
INDUSTRIAL  AND  SOCIAL  REFORMS  ALREADY 
ACHIEVED,  AND  THE  GOING  FORWARD  WITH 
ADDITIONAL  REFORMS.  Elect  the  Opposi- 
tion and  we  as  a  nation  will  go  in  the  op- 
posite direction.  Do  you  want  that?  Cer- 
tainly not.  Then  the  only  thing  to  do  if 
you  are  a  Republican  is  to  "scratch"  your 
ticket  and  vote  to  continue  in  office  the  ex- 
isting National  Government.  That  is  as 
plain  as  that  two  and  two  are  four.  Either 
we  go  forward  or  backward.  And  you  do 


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not  have  to  leave  your  party  to  vote  right 
— merely  scratch  your  ticket. 

As  you  have  observed,  doubtless,  the  Op- 
position's plan  of  campaign  is  to  attempt 
to  please  the  pro-German  and  the  pro- 
Allies,  also  the  Roman  Catholic  prelates, 
and  th«  Patriotic  vote.  This  may  attract 
unthinking  people;  WILL  IT  DECEIVE  YOU? 
Will  both  the  pro-Allies  and  the  pro-Ger- 
mans, and  the  Roman  prelates  and  the 
devotees  of  Free  Institutions  be  brought  to 
vote  for  the  Opposition — the  Reactionists? 

Also  notice  that  the  forces  that  are  ac- 
tually back  of  the  Opposition — the  Reac- 
tionists— include  all  of  the  evil  interests. 

FOR  EXAMPLE,  THE  MEN  WHO  DURING  THE 
EXISTENCE  OF  THE  REPUBLICAN  GOVERN- 
MENT POSSESSED  SPECIAL  PRIVILEGES  AND 

ARE  NOW  TRYING  TO  GET  THEM  BACK.     The 

mere  possibility  of  Republican  success  in 
November  as  indicated  by  the  Maine  elec- 
tion has  sent  the  railroad  stocks  soaring. 
meaning  that  rate  regulations  would  be 
relaxed— THAT  THE  PEOPLE  WOULD  BE 

ROBBED,   ACCOMPANIED  BY  A   HUNDRED-AND- 

ONE  OTHER  EVILS.  Can't  you  realize  what 
would  come  about  should  the  reactionists 
be  returned  t«  power?  One  thing  would 
be  real  militarism,  coupled  with  a  refusal 
to  aid  in  the  formation  of  the  Federation 
of  the  World  and  the  securing  of  World 
Peace. 

The  real  self-interest  of  the  German- 
Americans  and  of  all  other  citizens  is  for 
the  brotherhood  plan — the  formation  ef 
the  United  States  of  the  World,  to  which 
the  existing  Democratic  Government  is 
committed  and  which  has  provided  for  the 
calling  of  the  necessary  Conferen«e  of 
Nations.  That  is  the  road  to  permanent 
peace  and  ultimate  disarmament  on  the 
basis  of  equal  national  rights.  Who  in  his 
right  mind  can  vote  against  it?  The  Re- 
publican leaders,  however,  are  staking 
their  hope  of  success  upon  capturing  the 
German-American  Democrats,  AND  THE 
LINCOLN  (NEB.)  Freie  Presse  BOASTS 
THAT  "OUT  OF  28  DAILY  AND  238  WEEKLY 
GERMAN  DEMOCRATIC  NEWSPAPERS  THAT 

ARE  PUBLISHED  IN  THIS  COUNTRY,  NOT  ONE 

SUPPORTS  MR.  WILSON'S  CANDIDACY." 

Also  the  Republican  leaders  are  being 
supported  BY  SUCH  OF  THE  ROMAN  CATH- 
OLICS AS  WILL  FOLLOW  THEIR  CHURCH 

LEADERS. 

And  the  Republican  leaders  are  plan- 
ning to  secure  the  vote  of  the  Patriotic 


Societies  became  Secretary  Tumulty  is  a 
C&tholic;  and  secure  the  vote  of  a  big  per- 
centage of  the  pro-Allies  among  those  who 
were  Progressives  in  1912;  and  at  the 
same  time  hold  most  of  their  own  Republi- 
can members  who  are  pro- Ally.  BUT 

SURELY  NO  WIDE-AWAKE  PRO- ALLY  WILL  CO- 
OPERATE WITH  THE  PRO-GERMANS  TO  TURN 

OUT    OP    OFFICE    THE    EXISTING    NATIONAL 

GOVERNMENT;  NOR  WILL  A  REALLY  TRUE 
AMERICAN  VOTE  T©  RESTORE  THE  ROMAN 
CATHOLIC  priests  in  Mexico,  and  make 
Roman  Catholic  priests  a  balance  of  power 
in  our  Government.  The  fact  is  that  in 
this  World  Crisis  a  new  alignment  is  be- 
ing made  and  we  should  look  to  the  big 
issues — the  establishment  of  a  World 
League  to  Prevent  Aggression;  also  the 
maintenance  of  the  existing  Brotherhood 
of  the  American  Republics,  especially  for 
mutual  defense  against  a  foreign  foe;  the 
maintenance  of  Mexican  Independence — 
'especially  as  it  will  also  result  in  our  own 
freedom ;  the  going  forward  with  Adequate 
Preparedness  until  competition  in  arma- 
ment is  ended;  the  continued  development 
of  Foreign  Trade  and  that  Home  Indus- 
tries shall  be  sufficiently  protected,  as  they 
now  are,  subject  to  revision  from  time  to 
time  by  the  forthcoming  Non-Partisan 
Tariff  Commission;  the  continued  expan- 
sion of  Industrial  Freedom — death  to  the 
Trusts;  and  that  the  splendid  beginnings 
in  Social  Justice  shall  go  forward. 

These  constitute  Progress — the  Demo- 
cratic Highway.  The  opposition  party, 
the  Republican  Organization,  financed  by 
would-be  Monopolists  and  other  sinister 
interests,  and  aided  by  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic prelates,  is  making  frantic  efforts  to 
re-capture  the  National  Government.  Re- 
action is  being  worked  for.  READER,  WILL 
THEY  GET  YOUR  VOTE?  Forewarned  is 
forearmed!  VOTE  FOR  YOUR  OWN  INTER- 
ESTS AND  THE  WELFARE  OF  THE  WORLD!  In 

the  words  of  Thomas  A.  Edison:  "The 
times  are  too  serious  to  talk  or  think  in 
terms  of  Republicanism  or  Democracy. 
Real  Americans  must  drop  parties  and  get 
down  to  big  fundamental  principles." 
Reader,  ive  invite  you  to  a  careful  self- 
examination  of  yourself! 


In  this  connection  bear  in  mind  that  the 
following  issues  are  overshadowing  all 
ethers : 

1.  Shall  the  American  people  permit  an 
American    President   to   be    driven   from 
office  by  a  foreign  element  BECAUSE  HE  HAS 

DARED  TO  MAINTAIN  OUR  AMERICAN  RIGHTS 

— dared  to  compel  the  German  Govern- 
ment to  live  up  to  International  law? 
Also— 

2.  Shall  the  American  people  permit  a 
Progressive  President  to  be  driven  from 

office    THROUGH     THE    UNITED    EFFORTS     OF 

REACTIONARY  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  PRIESTS? 

The  answer  is  that  our  own  self-respect 
and  our  own  self-interest  COMPEL  us 
AMERICANS  TO  SUPPORT  OUR  PRESIDENT. 
We  cannot  consent  that  our  Government 
shall  become  subordinated  to  the  Prussian 
Kaiser  and  the  Pope  at  Rome,  the  latter 
being  an  absolute  monarch  exercising  civil 
power*  and  who  is  opposed  to  human  lib- 
erty,** The  raising  of  these  issues  in  this 
year's  campaign  by  the  Germans  and  the 
Political  Romanists  compel  the  rest  of  us 
to  vote  together.  No  other  solution  is 
practicable.  In  the  words  of  an  editorial 
in  the  New  York  Tribune  of  June  14th, 
1916,  concerning  this  German  issue  "Many 
months  ago  this  newspaper  said:  'it  would 
be  better  for  the  Republican  Party  to  in- 
dorse Woodrow  Wilson  in  1916  than  to 
permit  the  principle  to  be  established  that 

TO  DEFEND  AMERICAN  INTERESTS  IS  TO  COM- 
MIT POLITICAL  SUICIDE/  "  We  as  Ameri- 
cans simply  cannot  permit  it.  Nor  can  we 
permit  the  Political  Romanists  to  triumph. 
It  would  restore  them  to  power  in  Mexico, 
and  they  would  again  become  a  balance  of 
power  in  our  midst.  Therefore  every 
patriot — every  lover  of  the  Stars  and 
Stripes  and  all  that  they  stand  for,  will 
vote  to  continue  in  office  the  existing  Na- 
tional Government!  A  change  will  mean 
Reaction — the  triumph  of  Germany  in  this 
country,  with  far-reaching  effects  upon  the 
War  of  Nations;  also  it  would  be  not  only 
a  triumph  for  Political  Romanism,  but  it 
might  result  in  victory  for  Reaction  in 
the  War  of  Nations !  Choose  ye  this  day 
whom  ye  will  serve! 


*  To-day  at  the  Pope's  court  there  'are 
representatives  of  each  of  the  great  civil 
powers  that  are  in  the  War  except  France. 
(International  Year  Book,  1915,  title  Ro- 


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man  Catholic.)  In  International  law  to- 
day the  Pope  and  his  representatives  pos- 
sess a  civil  status,  which  is  not  the  case 
with  the  Protestant  Churches.  For  details 


consult  Political  Romanism,  described  at 
page  3,  above.  * 

**Pope  Leo  XIII,  in  an  encyclical- let- 
ter of  June  20,  1888,  says: 

"Therefore,  the  nature  of  Human  Lib- 
erty, however  it  be  considered,  whether  in 
individual  or  in  society,  .  .  .  is  no  other 
than  the  authority  of  God,  commanding 
good  and  forbidding  evil.  ...  Thus 
the  powerful  influence  of  the  Church  has 
ever  been  manifested  IN  THE  CUSTODY  AND 

PROTECTION  OP  THE  CIVIL  AND  POLITICAL 
LIBERTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE.  '.  ~.  '.  But 

many  there  are  who  follow  in  the  foot- 
steps of  Lucifer,  and  adopt  his  rebellious 
cry:  'I  will  not  serve/  and  consequently 
substitute  for  liberty  what  is  sheer  and 
most  foolish  license.  Such,  for  instance, 
are  the  men,  who  belonging  to  that  widely- 
spread  and  powerful  organization,  who, 
usurping  the  name  of  liberty,  style  them- 
selves LIBERALS.  What  Naturalists  or 
Rationalists  aim  at  in  philosophy,  that  the 
supporters  of  LIBERALISM,  carrying  out 
the  principles  laid  down  by  Naturalism, 
are  attempting  in  the  domain  of  morality 
and  politics.  ,  .  .  Once  ascribe  to  hu- 


man reason  the  only  authority  to  decide 
what  is  true  and  what  is  good,  and  the 
real  distinction  between  good  and  evil  is 
destroyed.  .  .  .  With  reference  also  to 
public  affairs:  authority  is  severed  from 
the  true  and  natural  principle  whence  it 
derives  all  its  efficacy  for  the  common 
good,  and  the  law  determining  what  is 
right  to  do  and  avoid  doing  is  AT  THE 

MERCY    OF    THE    MAJORITY.       Now    this    i» 

simply  a  road  leading  straight  to  tyranyt 
....  We  must  now  consider  briefly 
Liberty  of  Speech,  and  Liberty  of  the 
Press.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that 
there  can  be  no  such  right.  .  .  . 

"Another  liberty  is  widely  advocated, 
namely,  Liberty  of  Conscience.  If  by  this  is 
meant  that  every  one  may,  as  he  chooses, 
worship  God  or  not,  it  is  sufficiently  re- 
futed by  the  arguments  already  advanced." 
(The  Great  Encyclical  Letters  of  Pope 
Leo  XIH,  published  by  Benziger  Brothers, 
Printers  to  the  Holy  Apostalic  See.  Nihil 
Obstat,  Remigius  Lafort,  S.T.L.;  Censor 
Liborium.  Imprimatur,  Jno.  F.  Farley, 
Archbishop.  1903.") 


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